Of course, violating firearms laws is a badge of honor for anti-american rightwing bigots like Simcox. But just so ya know...

From: Southen Poverty Law Center article -

Anti-Immigrant Extremism

Chris Simcox, the rabble-rousing newspaper publisher who organized the Civil Homeland Defense militia last fall in Arizona, pleaded not guilty on Aug. 21 to three misdemeanor weapons charges. Simcox, whose trial date has not been set, was nabbed while carrying a firearm on National Park Service land, and he also is charged with lying to a ranger about the gun.

http://tinyurl.com/6xgre

One of my very favorite Simcox quotes:

In a speech before the California Coalition for Immigration reform (a group the Southern Poverty Law Center labels racist), Simcox revealed his wildest fantasies; to wit:

“The Mexican Army is driving American vehicles, but carrying Chinese Weapons. I have personally seen what I can only believe to be Chinese troops.”

Riiight. The Mexican Army is invading Armpit AZ armed with AK's and driving, what, Saturns?

taking the law into their own hands...

Pre-show blog freebies:

Main points of the Every Vote Should Count Act: http://www.cr-johnson.com/every_vote.html

Sign promoting Operation Truth: http://www.cr-johnson.com/optruth_sign.pdf

Evenin' everyone!

Laura Flanders is off KTLK, Los Angeles.

Whole weekend schedule blown out. No Ring of Fire either.

Combination of dumbshit syndicated travelogue and snake oil, and two local talkers with the charisma of earthworms.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Records Give Voice to Guantánamo Detainees
By Pete Yost and Matt Kelley
The Associated Press

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040905C.shtml

Need Further Proof Who Really Controls This 'Democracy[?]' !!!!

"If things break down and nothing gets done, we and others will tell them, 'Enough is enough' ... 'Get things done or else you won't be back."'
Paul Miller-Business Lobbyist

Senate Battle Over Judges Concerns Business

Apr 8, 1:33 PM (ET)

By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Miller and other business lobbyists are worried that a battle over President Bush's judicial nominees may tie the Senate into knots, endangering legislation they want turned into law.

"We are alarmed," said Miller, a lobbyist on Capitol Hill since 1996 who has headed the 700-member American League of Lobbyists since January.

"If things break down and nothing gets done, we and others will tell them, 'Enough is enough' ... 'Get things done or else you won't be back."'

The business community helped Republicans expand their majorities in Congress in last year's elections and now wants them to pass a crush of legislation.

A major energy bill and transportation measure are on its wish list, along with a proposed trade agreement with Central American nations, tax relief and legislation to revamp medical malpractice laws.

Miller voices frustration with Democrats and Republicans, who blame each other for their high-stakes showdown over judges that may come to a head within weeks.

Republicans threaten to change the Senate rules to ban procedural hurdles known as filibusters that Democrats have used to block 10 of Bush's most controversial judicial nominees.

Democrats vow to retaliate to such a rule change by using other procedural tactics to stall action on legislation that they consider nonessential.

Overall, business, like congressional Republicans, would like more conservatives on the federal bench, figuring such jurists would make the courts more amenable to their positions on matters from labor to product liability.

Yet at least some are concerned that banning the filibuster -- denounced by critics as "the nuclear option" because of the damage it could do to Senate bipartisanship -- may prove to be too big a price to pay.

"Everybody who knows anything about this is concerned," said a member of a business trade group speaking on the condition he not be identified by name. "We'd hate to see Senate action come to a halt. Things need to get done."

'HOW UGLY DOES IT GET?'

Democrats promise to be selective in slowing down the Senate. Yet many fear the battle could paralyze the chamber.

"There's going to be a big fight. The only question is how ugly does it get," said Ethan Siegal of The Washington Exchange, which tracks Congress for institutional investors.

Republicans control the Senate, holding 55 of 100 seats. Sixty votes are needed to end a filibuster; 51 would be needed to change the rules to ban filibusters on judicial nominees.

At this point, key questions include: Can Democrats and Republicans somehow reach a compromise, and if not, can Republicans muster 51 votes to change the rules?

Several Senate Republicans have voiced concerns that a rule change could stop legislation and hurt them in a future Democratic-led Senate.

"We are all concerned, but we'll get the votes," vowed Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, saying Democrats cannot be allowed to continue to block the will of the majority.

Democrats argue that the filibuster must be preserved to maintain a check on the majority's power.

Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said eliminating the filibuster "is only too big a price to pay" if Democrats "shut the place down."

"The next question is for how long? If it's for two days, it's not too big a price," Josten said. "If it's for weeks, it's a whole different deal."

Democrats vow "long-term" retaliation.

"If that happens, then you are in a game of chicken," Josten. "Neither side can afford to sit there and do nothing."

Awright. Buckle your seat belts people. When L plays this bumper this early you can bet your bottom Novus Ordo Seclorum we're in for some fireworks! :exclaim:

That was a FINE rant by Laura. A real hand-clapper. :applause:

What makes ME mad is how KTLK never publishes a program schedule. How the hell do you build an audience for a show when nobody knows it's on? There is NO program schedule.

What up?  Everyone check the T-shirt post on AAP’s Unfiltered thread???
Posted by connor man  on  04/09  at  07:23 PM

So I guessi am not the only one skulking around tonite....

The talibush seem to think that every problem can be solved the way it's done in a Hollywood western. Although that thinking goes back to Reagan, it's just more blatant.

Hey, LF people. Do you have the old Gil-Scott Heron anti-Reagan song "B Movie"?

This is my firt time actually sitting back and listening to Ms. flanders. (you know with my busy social calendar and all)

I like her.

Well my ears perked when I heard her mention the JCCCR.

Did anyone read the article in today's washington post?

Laura just made me a fan

pete moon is conspicuously absentÂ… WutÂ’s up with that?!?!?!? ohh
Posted by MaggiesBoy on 04/09 at 07:36 PM

I wondered that myself. Sunday I was the one who asked where Pete was. But he listened to the first 1/2 hour of the show in his car.

Has the MSM done any mention about Bush being booed at the Pope's funeral. I first heard about it last night on Malloy's show.

I just love seeing Republicans eat their own. :coolgrin:

Off Again to that Other War - Written By A Good Friend

[The following is an Opinion Piece that was printed in the Viewpoint section of 'The Charlotte Observer' today 4-8-05 and written by a good friend of mine about their Sons Third Deployment into the War Theaters of Iraq and Afganistan. What isn't in the writeup about their son Jim is that after already doing a Tour in Afganistan, and thinking he could get an Army School on return, they instead recieved orders for a Tour in Iraq with little time before deployment. In that short time he Married his SweetHeart and they are now Proud Parents of their First Child, and as Amy writes New Daddy Jim is Heading back to Afganistan!!]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/opinion/11341148.htm

Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005

Off again to that other war

Son's regiment leaves for 3rd tour of duty

AMY KEITH

Special to the Observer

Today my husband and I will travel to Fayetteville to say goodbye to our older son as he departs, one more time, for Afghanistan. The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment will be leaving for their third tour of combat duty since December 2002, most likely for at least a year. It won't make huge headlines like the NCAA championship. It probably won't get mentioned at all because the focus is on Iraq, while bodies are still needed for the real war on terrorism in Afghanistan.

They've been to Afghanistan once together, and then to Iraq, this group of young men. When they come home, they will have spent more time together in combat than any soldiers since World War II.

It's no secret that that my husband and I have been adamantly opposed to the invasion of Iraq, which is tying up so many troops in the overburdened Army that soldiers, active and Reserve, are being deployed over and over again. But no matter. They, we, are still in Iraq, and they will be off to war one more time.

So, here we go again, through the guarded gates of Fort Bragg. We'll all joke around together, and we'll promise weekly care packages, and we'll hug, and I'll turn away as my soldier son says goodbye to his wife and infant daughter. He'll turn and disappear, one more time, to the other side of the earth, to a desert that will not be friendly or hospitable.

I've contemplated this scenario a thousand times during the last month or so, trying to mentally steel myself for the real thing, to gather enough strength to get through those moments without crumbling. In the book "Gilead," Marilynne Robinson writes about a preacher's reflection on Abraham's having to send Ishmael, a son he loved, into the wilderness at the bidding of God. Ishmael is rescued from death by an angel and goes on to build a nation. "Great faith," the preacher writes to his own son, "is required to give the child up, trusting God to honor the parents' love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness."

Godspeed, 504th. Take care of each other and come home safe. All that the rest of us can do is trust that, one more time, there will be angels in that desert.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amy Keith of Charlotte is a member of Military Families Speak Out. Write her at shirtwearer1@yahoo.com

I can just hear it now:

"This is pedro moon reporting from Borderline, Az...." :-P

Pete had an earlier post up before show that said he might not have time to join in tonight!!

You guys see this report on the covert military aid to Iran after the 1980 prez election as payback for not releasing the US hostages? That was the first American presidential election that the Bush family stole.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/russianreport1980.html

Now I asked Ray McGovern, who was a CIA White House daily briefer, if the US could have sent $82 billion worth of weapons to the Iranians? He said he didn't know, but Russian intelligence likes to pump up the numbers...

She is doing great reading the german!

Me, too. German gets me when I'm feeling the need to be punished, however.

I'm a sucker for the British/American mix m'self! :red:

My all-time favorite, however, is Brazilian. Purrrrrrr. %-P

Arthur Finkelstein: Watch his new campaign for married gay republicans against gay marriage.

Where do i find the german version? i want to send it to my dad!

Delay and All the Talking Heads, ass well as All the other GOP Lackeys are Very Easy to Understand.
Just go back to they 8yr bashing of Clinton, carried over into first 4yrs. of whittle bushie, and Everything they Said they weren't doing, but were, they're doing exactly what they Charged Clinton with! And now saying that Liberals are doing these things, they said they weren't doing, to them!
Got That!!!

William Schubert: here's the german: www.speigel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-350388,00.html

By the way, the Fascism is already here.

Well, check out the next stuff on the Minutemen. These guys have exactly the same mentality as Eric Rudolph or Tom Delay or W.

regarding the bush-booing:
I think it speaks volumes to bush (and the anger about his policies) when people who are attending the funeral of THE POPE take timeout of a solemn ceremony to boo the guy.

I am not catholic, but I am thinking that if I were at a funeral for a loved one, i wouldn't take time out o boo, whistle hiss or jeer unless I had some pretty damm strong feelings. It seems to me that the Catholics really (and I don't like the word) hate the guy.

Posted by raine1967 on 04/09 at 08:06 PM

The World Hates the Schrub and the Neo-Con Controllers! They know more about what is going on than we can Imagine!!

Are armed civilians on the Mexican border there to provoke an incident that might lead eventually to some martial law situation? Or am I paranoid?